Neovim customization

Introduction

What is neovim? Neovim is a CLI based text editor that can be used to write documentation, write code etc. it has enough features for regulat text editing but may be lacking for the power users in the stock form, which is what we are going to do here.

Prerequisites

  • If neovim is not installed it can be installed in the following way in the following linux distors
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sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install neovim -y

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sudo dnf update -y

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sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S neovim

If neovim is alreaddy installed and you already have it setup then the following configuration files may be deleted to start neovim from actual scratch.

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 rm -rf ~/.local/state/nvim/
 rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/
 rm -rf ~/.local/share/nvim/

First steps of configuration

  • Open the configuration files, this can be opened by cd ~/.config/. Inside this you should make another directory called nvim and then you can make a file called as init.lua
  • Inside the same directory .config/nvim you’ll be needing another directory called lua/ inside the lua directory it is mandatory to have ONE directory, the name of this directory can be anything.
  • Tree structure for reference
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├── init.lua
└── lua
    ├── aum
    └── init.lua